What makes a low-performing MSCS school? State board targets 14 schools for improvements
NASHVILLE — About a dozen campuses run by Memphis-Shelby County Schools will be subject to more academic scrutiny over the next year as officials work to improve the schools’ F letter grades.
A Tennessee State Board of Education committee recommended a corrective-action plan for the Memphis schools during a Tuesday, March 24, hearing in Nashville. It’s the first time the state board has conducted the hearings, an accountability lever tied to Tennessee’s education-funding law.
“Today’s conversation is constructive. It’s not ‘gotcha;’ it’s not ‘rake you over the coals.’ But it’s meant to have a public, transparent conversation about the challenges that exist for the district, for these particular schools, and what the district is doing to move those forward in a way that will make them ultimately successful,” said state board member and Memphian Darrell Cobbins, who chairs the board’s accountability committee.
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Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today. Reach Laura with questions, story ideas or tips: Ltestino@dailymemphian.com or Ldtestino.54 on Signal.
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